Hockey Legend Multi-Cache
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The posted co-ordinates will take you to the grave of Bill Barilko in the Timmins Cemetery on Pine St. S. The cache is not here but can be found by quickly solving a simple formula. It is hidden at the edge of a forested area, just outside the cemetery. It is winter friendly but depending on the amount of snow, the cemetery roadways may not always be open. Please be respectful of where you are and remember that cemeteries are “privately owned outdoor sculpture” in a passive park setting.
The cache can be found at N48 27.abc and W081 20.0de. The micro container has only enough room for a log sheet – bring your own pen or pencil. Please re-hide as you found it.
Wm. “Bill” Barilko, born in Timmins On, Canada, first played professional hockey as a defenseman for the Hollywood California Wolves – a farm team – before being called up to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1947. The handsome blonde defenseman was a gentleman off the ice but was often referred to as ‘Bashin' Bill’ while playing. The Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup in 1947, 1948, and 1949. In the fifth game of the Stanley Cup playoffs against the Montreal Canadiens in 1951 – in sudden death overtime – Barilko picked up the puck which had bounced off the Montreal goalie ‘Jerry McNeil’ – and shot it back at the net – to score, and to allow Toronto to win the Stanley cup for the fourth time in five years. The goal that made Barilko a hockey hero is still described as the “greatest goal ever scored in Maple Leaf Gardens” and possibly “in NHL History”. That summer Barilko joined his friend, Dr. Henry Hudson on a fly-in fishing trip in Hudson’s ‘Fairchild’ airplane to James Bay. They never returned to Timmins from that trip, and there was no trace of the airplane after an extensive air and land search. Ironically the Maple Leafs did not win the Stanley cup again, until 1962, the same year that the plane was discovered in the bush north of Cochrane, by a bush pilot. Barilko’s story was also made famous by the song “Fifty Mission Cap” recorded by the Canadian rock band, the Tragically Hip.
The adjacent stone marker of the same material and size is for his parents, Steve and Faye Barilko.
From the stone marker for Bill Barilko solve the following:
a = the first digit of the year of his birth;
b = the total number of maple leafs shown, (be precise);
c = the total number of hockey sticks shown;
From the stone marker for his parents, find:
de = the last two digits of the year of death of his father Steve.
The cache can be found at N48 27.abc’ and W081 20.0de’
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Gur chpx fgbcf urer.
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